The one in Australia does, the Portuguese one has a wing masted schooner rig (lighter mainsail to hoist, easier to achieve balance, opens up the leeward hull, quieter when shunting/laying ahull). The Norwegian one is having a wing masted una rig, the same as Solitarry, although he is also building a very cunning telescoping solid wing rig for his Elementarry, which might be scaled up to the big boat.
rob
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:43 AM, LucD <lucjdekeyser@telenet.be> wrote:
Do these larger ones also feature a Balestron? Luc
--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Rob Denney <harryproa@...> wrote:
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> Already been done. There are 60'ters in Norway and Australia and a 70'ter
> in Portugal.
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> Arguably, Gaia's Dream is a Pacific proa which has been converted to a
> harry. Not sure whether the extra space or the extra righting moment were
> the reasons, but if he had made his windward hull a bit bigger originally,
> the deck house could be a lot smaller/lower.
>
> rob
>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:17 AM, LucD <lucjdekeyser@...> wrote:
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> > Inigo Wijnen's 71' proa, Gaia's Dream (GD), will start sea trials soon.
> > What would it take to scale the Harry concept to that size?
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> > Luc
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